[Samba] nested groups not working with sudo and winbind

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Glenn Bailey wrote:
|>> I'm having an issue with sudo not recognizing nested groups via AD and
|>> winbind. I have an AD group called UnixAdmins and when I ad and AD
|>> account *directly* into this group, I am able to use sudo just fine as
|>> it is in the sudoers. *but* say I have a nested group in UnixAdmins
|>> like CustomerUsers or whatnot it won't recognize. Now, I also restrict
|>> access via pam.d systems-auth to UnixAdmins, so I know that part it
|>> working. Also, when I run and "id" it shows the proper groups. It's
|>> just seems sudo won't recognize the nested groups :-(
|>>
|>> Anyone run into this issue before? It's gonna be an admin nightmare
|>> just to populate UnixAdmins with individual accounts ..
|
|> This was fixed in the upcoming 3.2 release.  See the "winbind expand
groups" option.
|
| is there anyway to patch 3.0.28a to allow for this? or
| any kind of workaround?

Not officially.  Are you running a file server?  Or just using
Winbind to authenticate logons?  I originally did the work
in Likewise's Winbind tree and pushed it upstream.  So
it has been shipping in Likewise Open [1] for a while.


[1] http://www.likewisesoftware.com/community/


cheers, jerry
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